Location of John J. Minor's Barbershop in the Sanborn Insurance Map of 1911

ID: 695 ~ Source: Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio, Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn06866_006/ ~ Date: 1911

This file appears in: John J. Minor's Barbershop and "New Light" on the Underground Railroad: Recovering the History of Portsmouth's Underground Railroad

This file appears in: John J. Minor's Barbershop and "New Light" on the Underground Railroad: Recovering the History of Portsmouth's Underground Railroad

John J. Minor's Barbershop and "New Light" on the Underground Railroad: Recovering the History of Portsmouth's Underground Railroad

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.

Born in 1828 in Albemarle County, Virginia, John James Minor settled in Portsmouth, Ohio in the mid-1830s, not long after the city had expelled many of its Black residents during its infamous “Black…